Evolution of caves in response to base-level lowering

Cave and Karst Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-12

  Worthington, Stephen R H ^a  

^a Worthington Groundwater   (Canada)

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CAVE DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOLOGY; WATER TABLE;

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